BIB_ID
287140
Accession number
MA 3151.47
Creator
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.
Display Date
1863 Nov. 4.
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Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1970.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 21.1 cm
Notes
Harriet Graves, Caroline's daughter, is also known as "Carrie" and is the second of the two Carolines mentioned in this letter.--Cf. Baker and Clarke, p. 235, n. 1.
Part of a collection of 86 letters from Wilkie Collins to Charles Ward. Items in this collection are described in individual records (MA 3151.1-86).
Written from the Hotel des Iles Britanniques. Signed "Ever yours / W.C."
Part of a collection of 86 letters from Wilkie Collins to Charles Ward. Items in this collection are described in individual records (MA 3151.1-86).
Written from the Hotel des Iles Britanniques. Signed "Ever yours / W.C."
Summary
Thanking Ward for accepting Tauchnitz's offer and for writing to Trubner & co about the American proposal. Describing his travels throughout Italy, noting that the "two Carolines" were sea-sick, and that Collins has been struck with sciatica.
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